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This piece shows the individual sculpture work of Sha Sha Higby. Her pieces are often exhibited as well as performed." SF Chronicle: always mesmerizing performance art hero, Sha Sha Higby with her unique sculptured-costume performance art. moves fluidly inside an intricate, lacy mesh of twigs, batiked fabrics, handmade leaves, seedpods and large and tiny masks,puppets, overlaid with kaleidoscopic visual projections, until her nearly naked body emerges from its evocative cocoon. ".

For the last two decades, she has performed & taught extensively throughout the United States, Asia, Australia, and Europe. Sha Sha Higby world premieres her latest work She creates a fantastical world where her rich costumes, meticulously formed from wood, paper, silk, lacquer, ceramics and gold leaf, come to life unexpectedly.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• sculpture
• performance
• Japanese urushi
• handmade paper
• craft
• gold leaf

[spookysaurus]

My Samurai armour analogy is really only half the story. Armour radiates power and invincibility, as it is intended to. These sculptures/costumes are the diametrical opposite. They rather radiate fragility, transience, extreme vulnerability: the discarded exoskeletons of dream creatures and mythical beings. It is as if they have been nudged gently to the very threshold of our own material world, which - paradoxically enough - is their great strength.

[spookysaurus]

These wonderful pieces emanate something akin to an exhibited suit of armour. Not European armour, but more like the feeling of seeing a suit of Samurai armour on exhibition, with its mask of hair and iron, and its many separate elements and rich textures of silk, metal and lacquer. These costumes, as with Samurai armour, are a kind of rich exoskeleton. Even when they are not being worn, they retain the presence of the wearer, like a far echo, or a vanished ghost. Sha Sha, you are awesome.